Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups.
Mark's new book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation.
He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean.
Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.
Lean Manufacturing in China: Opportunities and Challenges – LeanBlog Podcast Featuring...
Update 12/17: Click here for part 2 of the Womack podcast.
LeanBlog Podcast #12 brings us a special guest, James P. Womack of the Lean...
Quality of Work, Quality of Service
I've been reading the book Managing The Professional Service Firm by David Maister, which is targeted toward the management of professional firms: consulting,...
Driven a Ford Lately? I Won’t Be
Maybe it was karma or fate after I've been giving Ford execs a hard time, but I rented a LOUSY Ford Mustang over the...
Chris Bianco on Searching for Pizza Perfection
Chris Bianco: 'Pizza has been good to me' | Operations | Pizza Marketplace
I'm back in Phoenix for a few days, a city where I...
“30 Rock” on Jack Welch and Six Sigma, Praise from Jack...
We know Dilbert makes fun of Six Sigma, but the new NBC show "30 Rock" does a great job of skewering GE culture (of...
Lessons from Northwestern Football – Teamwork Over Talent and Inspirational Coaching
Plant Engineering
Plant Engineering magazine has started a blog and they might have suckered me into mentioning their blog by praising this one:
The other one...
Assembly Line TV Shows?
Hollywood Report - WSJ.com:I'm not a fan of "The O.C." but this caught my eye in the WSJ today:"What went wrong at 'The O.C.'?...
Want to be notified of Comments?
Hi Blog readers -- an administrative topic for the blog. I had one of our blog contributors ask about being notified of comments...
Overpaid Dummies Voting with their Feet at Ford
Blue-collar exodus brings new challenges - 11/30/06 - The Detroit News Online:UPDATE: In case some of you don't know my history of writing...
Why "Pull" for Hospitals?
Before any of you give a knee jerk reaction about how "pull is good, push is bad" --- I agree with you... pull is...
“Assembly Line Medicine”
I give a lot of lean overview presentations to healthcare audiences. While I talk mostly about the application of lean concepts to healthcare (problem...
Applying Little’s Law at the Hospital
This post is partly in tribute to Peter and his Little's Law blogging at shmula.com (it's not all Little's Law all the time, however)....
